https://nationalinterest.org/feature/reading-fiction-leads-good-strategic-thinking-39077

Advance look at the thesis and layout of Red Star over the Pacific, second edition, which debuts tomorrow:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/book-excerpt-red-star-over-pacific-chinas-rise-and-challenge-us-maritime-strategy-38617

A foray into non-naval seafaring in the age of sail, courtesy of Steven Ujifusa’s Barons of the Sea, about the race to build the fastest clipper ships for the China and California runs:

https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/12/12/behold-the-clipper-ships

Remember, commerce is king in sea power. The navy is just an enabler and protector.

A slightly tongue-in-cheek take on a solemn subject: the origins and aftermath of Pearl Harbor:

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/blame-alfred-thayer-mahan-pearl-harbor-and-thank-him-its-failure-38037

Historians and philosophers of yore pay tribute to President Bush. Rest your oar, sailor.

https://nationalinterest.org/print/feature/forceful-yet-magnanimous-foreign-policy-george-h-w-bush-37897

What French Army soldiers and thermodynamics professors can teach us about Russia and Ukraine:

https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/12/04/an-offbeat-take-on-putin-and-the-sea-of-azov

Some musings about the maritime clash between Russia and Ukraine in the Kerch Strait –

Goodbye Grotius, Hello Putin